Shedad, his father, and Malek, the father of Ibla, connived at these plots.

When it was all over,though I had not once raised my voice in protest, and had frankly connived with the others,I confess that I felt shame for us and pity for the friendless man we were sending out into the world.

Indeed Samuel Hopkins of Rhode Island in a pamphlet of 1776 declared that slavery in Anglo-America was "without the express sanction of civil government," and censured the colonial authorities and citizens for having connived in the maintenance of the wrongful institution.

"Thisthis doth trend to set my brain a-whirl, and doth connive to part sense from understanding and mind from body.